LUMINAI Public Lecture Series

On December 9, ASI Global was honored to once again host Professor Nigel Slater, Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering and former Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, for the final session of the 2025 LUMINAI Lecture Series. As a long-time guest speaker for ASI Global, Professor Slater returned with a talk titled “The Medical Revolution Led by Biotechnology: Biopharmaceuticals.” Speaking to hundreds of university students across China, he explored the structural complexity, regulatory challenges, and evolving innovation landscape shaping today’s biopharmaceutical industry.

On October 20, ASI Global welcomed Professor Edvard Moser, 2014 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine and Professor of Neuroscience at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), for the October session of the LUMINAI Lecture Series entitled “The Brain’s Codes for Space”. Addressing an online audience of Chinese college students and young scholars, Professor Moser provided an engaging overview of how the brain constructs an internal map of the world.

On August 21, ASI Global held the August session of its LUMINAI Lecture Series, featuring Mr. Fabrizio Hochschild, former United Nations Under-Secretary-General, who delivered an online talk titled “AI for Humanitarian Action: Innovation in Crisis Response”. Addressing Chinese university students and scholars interested in international affairs, Mr. Hochschild explored how artificial intelligence is transforming humanitarian action, emphasizing both the vast opportunities and the significant risks that AI brings to crisis response.

On July 16, ASI Global successfully hosted the July session of the LUMINAI Lecture Series, featuring Professor Philip Allmendinger, a distinguished scholar in land economy and urban planning from the University of Cambridge. Professor Allmendinger has also served as Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bath and as Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Cambridge. His research spans urban planning theory and practice, regional development, and policy frameworks that shape how cities evolve.

On June 21, ASI Global hosted the June session of the LUMINAI Lecture Series, featuring Dr. Randy W. Schekman, Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and 2013 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine. Speaking to a live online audience of students and scholars from across China, Dr. Schekman delivered his fourth lecture for ASI on “Developing Scientific Literacy in the AI Era”.

On April 9, the LUMINAI Lecture featured an insightful online talk by Professor Jonathan Michie, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and President of Kellogg College at the University of Oxford. In his talk, Making Lifelong Learning Central to University Strategy, Professor Michie underscored the imperative of repositioning lifelong learning to the core of university strategic planning in order to meet the evolving needs of individuals, societies, and economies in the age of intelligent transformation.

ASI Global successfully hosted the LUMINAI Lecture Series on February 26th, featuring an online lecture titled Artificial Intelligence Governance and Sustainable Development delivered by the distinguished Professor Angela Kane, former United Nations Under-Secretary-General. The event captivated a large audience of university students, all keen to delve into the opportunities and complex challenges AI presents for global sustainable development.